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Foot Ball Rules. 



AUTHORIZED INTERPRETATION 



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October, 1883. 



Copyright, 1883, by Walter Chaunchv Camp. 



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Foot Ball Rules. 

A UTHORIZED INTER PRE TA TION 

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October, 

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INDEX TO BOOK OF RULES. 



Rule*. 

Duties of Referee 19 

" " Captain 24 

" " Judges 18 

A Goal — how constructed 20 

" how obtained 9 

" how scored 27 

A Touchdown — how obtained 4 

" entitles to 4»5»34 

" how scored 27 

A Scrimmage — how occurs 26,31 

" how played I3»3^ 

" number engaged 31 

Off Side — when off 16 

" " how put on 17 

" " penalties I9i 26, 37 

Fair Catch — how made 10 

" " entitles to 36 

" " interference 37 

Warnings 19 



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Referee's Duties. 



It is the duty of the referee to 
I. Take out time. 
II. Decide disputed points, 

III. Warn players. 

IV. Keep the score. 

V. Call time and game. 

It is customary to request the referee 
to indicate the spot of a down and fair, 
throughout the game, without being 
appealed to. Other points are claimed 
before he is expected to decide. The 
captains and judges are the only ones 
to whom the referee is at all bound to 
pay attention, and they alone should 
make claims, and should assist the 
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referee by requiring silence from the 
players except where their testimony is 
asked by Captain, Judge, or Referee. 
A Referee can warn for 
I. Intentional off side play. 
II. Intentional tackling in touch. 

III. Intentional violation Rule 28. 

IV. Intentionally delaying the game. 
When a player is warned, the Captain 

must give his name to the Referee, and 
the Referee, on his side, must inform 
the Captain of the warning. At the 
beginning of the game the Judges and 
Referee should set their watches togeth- 
er, and decide the time of calling the 
end of the first three-quarter. To this 
must be added all time taken out ; and 
it is customary for the Referee, a short 
time before the closing of the three- 
quarter, to notify the Judges of the time 
remaining. 





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Interpretation of Rules. 



RULE I. — DROP-KICK, PLACE-KICK, 
and PUNT. 

When a fair catch entitles to any of 
these kicks, the opponents can charge 
as soon as kicker advances to kick, but 
must retire unless he kicks the ball; or 
the ball touches the ground. 

RULE 2. — KICK-OFF. 

The kicker's side in this, as in all free 
kicks, must be on side under penalty of 
a down for opponents. The position of 
the ball is the middle of the eleventh five- 
yard line, and the opponents' position is 
on second line in front. 
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RULE 3. — KICK-OUT. 

Must be a drop-kick, and opponents 
must stand outside twenty-five yard line. 

RULE 4. — TOUCH-DOWN. 

A man must dead the ball, and have 
his hand on it. He cannot dead it by 
rollino- over it, nor can he claim the 
touch-down unless his hand was on the 
ball. In deciding a safety the Referee 
should consider whether the impetus 
that put the ball across the line was ac- 
quired from the defenders or the op- 
ponents. In the former case it would 
score as a safety ; in the latter,^ not. 

RULE 5. — TRY-AT-GOAL. 

** May '' is changed to '' shall/* and it 
must be a bona fide try, and not a drib- 
ble. 



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RULE 6. — TRY BY PLACE-KICK. 

The ball must be brought out at right 
angles to the goal line^ and opposite the 
mark, whether between the posts, or not. 

RULE 7.-^PUNT.OUT. 

The ball may be punted from touch in 
goal, if necessary, as it is not in play 
after the touch-down until punted. 
There must be no interference with 
punter, else he may try again. 

RULE 8. — PUNT-ON. 

The mark determines the position the 
same as preceding. 

RULE 9.— A GOAL. 

If the kick is from a fair catch or a 
touch-down, and any of the kickers' side 
are off side, the goal does not score, and 



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the ball goes down to opponents on the 
/Spot of the kick. 

RULE 10.— FAIR CATCH. 

Always made from an opponent ex- 
cept in case of a punt out, or on. 

RULE 12. — DEAD BALL. 

No play can be made or scored when 
the ball is dead, nor can any warning be 
given for such play. The ball is also 
considered dead when the Referee has 
called time. By section i of this rule a 
man can have the ball down without be- 
ing tackled. 

RULE 13. — SCRIMMAGE. 

The snapper-back is entitled to but 
half the ball. May use his hand, but 
must have his foot on the ball. 



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RULE 14. — MAUL IN GOAL. 

Any player losing his hold of the ball 
has no longer a right to continue the 

maul. 

RULE 15. — TOUCH. 

The hand does not count. It must 
be the ball or the foot. If the ball go 
out and strike a spectator and bound in, 
it must be brought back and put in. 

RULE 16,— OFFSIDE. 

In blocking it is allowable to stand in 
any position with arms extended, but not 
locked with the next man. After the 
ball is snapped no man can change his 
position for the sake of blocking his 
adversary. 

RULE 17. — ON SIDE. 
If a rusher has crept around off side, 
and intercepts the ball between the 



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quarter and half, he can be warned ; but 
he has a right to the ball as an opponent 
has last touched it. His warning is for 
intentional off side play at the moment 
when the ball was snapped. 

RULE i8.— JUDGES and REFEREE. 

If the ball hit a Judge or the Referee, 
it is still in play, they being considered 
part of the apparatus of the game, as the 
goal posts. 

RULE 19. — REFEREE. 

On any disputed point he is the sole 
arbiter, and there is no appeal from his 
decision. 

RULE 20. — GROUNDS. 

The field should be marked with 
transverse lines every five yards. 



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RULE 21.— SUBSTITUTES. 

Must not be allowed in the field of 
play. 

RULE 22. — TIME. 

The Referee should notify the two 
Captains a few minutes before the inter- 
mission ends. 

RULE 23.— UNLAWFUL AIDS. 

When discovered play must be stopped 
by the Referee until they are discarded. 

RULE 24. — TOSS. 

It is customary for the Judges to per- 
form this duty. 

RULE 25. — KICK-OFF. 

On the eleventh iive-ygjrd line. 



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RULE 26. — PENALTIES. 

Warnings are given only under Rule 
19. 

RULE 27. — SCORING. 

Safeties always count, unless the score 
is a tie in other points, and there is on 
neither side an excess of two safeties 
over the other. 

RULE 28.— UNFAIR TACTICS. 

Any infringement of this Rule must 
receive a warning. 

RULE 29. — FREE KICK. 

A free kick is one where the oppo- 
nents are restrained by rule. 

RULE 30. — PASSING THE BALL.' 

Even behind his own goal, he must 
still pass it either in a straight line, or 
away from opponents' goal. 



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RULE 31. — DOWNS. 

The player and ball must both be 
fairly held. The snapper-back has a 
right to but half the ball. ** Without 
leaving the hands of the side/' means 
without giving opponents fair and equal 
chance of possessing themselves of the 
ball 

RULE 32. — FAIRS. 

If he does not declare how far he 
intends walking, he must go back and 
come out again. " Either side may 
claim '' is the only case where a Judge 
can claim a foul by his own side, 

RULE 33. — MAUL IN GOAL. 

The ball; when it does touch the 
ground, becomes the property of the 
first man who had hold of it, if he has 
at no time released that hold. 



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RULE 34. — KICK-OUT. 

No warning under " intentionally de- 
laying the game" can be given for kick- 
ing into touch, as there is a penalty for 
the third. 

RULE 35. — CHARGING . 

There is no rule by which the ball is 
put in play by opponents' charging. 

RULE 36. — FAIR CATCH. 

The player who makes the catch 
must do the placing the ball. 

RULE 37. — INTERFERENCE FAIR 
CATCH. 

If the ball strike the catcher and 
bound up, and he then catches and holds 
it without having run, and without its 
touching any one else, he can heel it; 
but as soon as it strikes him it has put 



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every one on side, and there can be no 
interference, as the opponents have as 
good a right to it as he. 

RULE 38. — INTERFERENCE. 

Cannot be warned unless it is an 
intentional off side play. 



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